ROBINS, ELIZABETH ("C.E.  RAIMOND").—­American novelist and actress. New Moon (1895), Below the Salt (1896), The Open Question (1898), The Convert (1907), etc.

ROBINSON, AGNES MARY FRANCES (MME. DUCLAUX) (1857).—­Poetess. A Handful of Honeysuckles (1878), The Crowned Hippolytus (1881), Arden (novel) (1883), The New Arcadia (1884), Italian Garden (songs) (1886), A Mediaeval Garland (1897), The Fields of France (1903), The End of the Middle Ages, books in French on Froissart, Renan, etc.

ROSE, JOHN HOLLAND, Litt.D. (1855).—­Historical and biographical writer. A Century of Continental History, The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Era, Napoleonic Studies, Life of Napoleon I. (1902), The Development of the European Nations, 1870-1900 (1905), etc.

ROSEBERY (ARCHIBALD PHILIP PRIMROSE), 5TH EARL of, K.G., K.T., LL.D., etc. (1847).—­Statesman and biographical writer. Pitt (1891), Appreciations and Addresses (1899), Sir Robert Peel (1899), Napoleon, the Last Phase (1900), and Oliver Cromwell (1900).

ROSSETTI, WILLIAM MICHAEL (1829).—­Biographer, ed., etc.  Translator of Dante’s Hell (1865), Lives of Famous Poets (1878), Life of Keats (1887), Memoir of Dante G. Rossetti, and has ed. many poets, etc.

RUSSELL, WILLIAM CLARK (1844).—­Novelist. John Holdsworth, Chief Mate (1874), A Sailor’s Sweetheart (1877), An Ocean Tragedy (1881), The Convict Ship (1895), List, ye Landsmen (1897), Overdue (1903), The Yarn of Old Harbour Town (1905), etc.

SAINTSBURY, GEORGE EDWARD BATEMAN, LL.D., D.Litt., etc. (1845).—­Critic and biographer. Short History of French Literature, etc. (1882), Essays in English Literature (1890), Nineteenth Century Literature (1896), A History of Criticism (1900-4), History of English Prosody, vol. i. (1906), etc., Lives of Dryden (English Men of Letters) and Sir W. Scott, etc.

SANDYS, JOHN EDWIN, Litt.D. (1844).—­Scholar; joint ed. of Dictionary of Classical Mythology, Religion, etc. (1891), History of Classical Scholarship from Sixth Century, B.C., to the End of the Middle Ages (1903), History of Classical Scholarship from Revival of Learning to Present Day (1907), etc.; has produced many ed. of classics.

SAYCE, ARCHIBALD HENRY, D.Litt., LL.D., etc. (1846).—­Orientalist and philologist, etc. Principles of Comparative Philology (1874), Babylonian Literature (1877), Monuments of the Hittites (1881), Ancient Empires of the East (1884), Races of the Old Testament (1891), Babylonians and Assyrians (1900), Archaeology of Cuneiform Inscriptions (1907), etc.